Tracking shallow marine red beds through geological time as exemplified by the lower Telychian (Silurian) in the Upper Yangtze Region, South China

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 699-713

  Rong, Jia Yu ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Xiao Le ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

distribution; environments; lower Telychian of Lower Silurian; shallow marine red beds; South China

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTS; LOWER TELYCHIAN OF LOWER SILURIAN; RED BED; SOUTH CHINA;

BIODIVERSITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RED BED; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; SILURIAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84862815946     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4376-5     Document Type: Article

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